As we recently noted, the Ohio State Board of Education voted to adopt the Common Core academic standards. Curious about the background of these standards and what they’ll mean for the Buckeye State? Head on over Fordham’s new Common Core Resource Page for a collection of timely commentary, reports, and videos all profiling the Common Core in depth. This page serves as an excellent primer for anyone interested in catching up on or learning anew about the Common Core.
The Buckeye State is moving forward in thinking about how to align curriculum and assessments with the new standards. But beyond immediate implementation questions remain broad ones about the future of the common standards. How should the Common Core standards initiative be governed? Who will “own” these standards (and related assessments) 20 years from now? To stir smart thinking around such questions, the Fordham Institute invited knowledgeable experts to share their opinions through a series of white papers. Visit our website to read the papers and stayed tuned for tomorrow’s national Education Gadfly for more on this important topic.